Using class constants in PHPUnit annotations - php

Question

The manual of PHPUnit shows, that I can use class-constants in annotations for #expectedExceptionCode, see PHPUnit #expectedExceptionCode
I try to use it within my name spaced model which extends from Eloquent.
When I run my tests I got an: "PHP Fatal error: Class 'Eloquent' not found"
Running the App is all fine, so it depends on the Unit-Tests, isn't it?
Any ideas?
namespace Foo\Models;
use \Eloquent;
class Bar extends Eloquent {
const ERRORCODE = 150;
...
}
class BarTest extends TestCase {
/**
* #expectedExceptionCode Foo\Models\Bar::ERRORCODE
*/
public function testFoobar()
{
$name = 'foobar';
Bar::findBarOrFail($name);
}
}
For clarification:
PHP Fatal error: Class 'Eloquent' not found in PathToProject/app/models/Bar.php
Update
After #j-boschieros comment I got the above code working! Thanks mate!
However, when I provoke the exception in a controller test, the fatal error still occurs.
Even if I use the namespaces or not.
use \Eleoquent;
use Foo\Models\Bar;
class TestController extends TestCase {
/**
* #expectedExceptionCode Foo\Models\Bar::ERRORCODE
*/
public function testStoreActionWithInvalidDatatyp ()
{
$this->call('POST', '/routeToException');
}
Update 2
Got my Unit-Tests working when I extend \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model instead of Eloquent.
namespace Foo\Models;
use \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Bar extends Model {
const ERRORCODE = 150;
...
}
This differs from Laravel Doc. Is it still okay?

Answer 1

The "class" \Eloquent is actually an alias which is registered at run-time by the Laravel framework. You're making PHP parse the model class file before these aliases have been set up, causing it to fail. The correct approach to this is just to avoid the global namespace aliases and use the real class names instead (Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model instead of Eloquent in your case). You can find a list of class aliases in app/config/app.php.